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have not been explored. The country to the east is also heaved 
northward by this head. 
Tn the hollow occupied by the road from Kilmacoo to Kilma- 
crea Pass there is a N. 75° E. course of flucany killas with thin 
veins of iron pyrites; on it trials have been made without finding 
any profitable lode. The tract of country east of Kilmacoo East 
head is very much broken up; many more or less isolated masses of 
felspathic rock (felstones, hornstones, and tuffs) occurring therein. 
The Kilmacrea cross course is an irregular dyke of black 
(coaly) and gray killas with hard gritty ribs running with the 
bearing of the course; at the north end of the course there are 
“old men’s workings” consisting of a nearly E. and W. level and 
different shafts. Some trials were also made about seventeen 
years ago without any practical results. The level is evidently 
very ancient, and little is known about it. Close to the Cross- 
roads is Brady’s shaft in which broken sulphur ore was found in 
a “lodge,” while a little farther south is Foley’s shaft where 
yellow ore is said to have been raised ; here, also, the site of the 
old “cobbing” floor is pointed out. This ore may possibly be 
a rib associated with the “coal.” About 83 fms. farther south, 
in a small trial at the road, there is a sparry string carrying 
some sphalerite ; while about 90 fms. still farther south there are 
blocks of coppery quartz that seem to belong to nearly a EK. and 
W. lode in the wood. 
From Kilmacrea cross course to the N. 10° W. fault in Bally- 
eapple Hill, a distance of 1,000 fms., the country is also much dis- 
placed, and no mineral indications are known therein except a 
few iron springs and some quartz tumblers containing chalco- 
pyrite—which are found in Ballykean at a considerable distance 
south of the bearing of the mineral channel of Connary. 
Ballycapple and Ballard Mines. 
In the eastern side of Ballycapple Hill several pits were put 
down, and open casts made to reach the gossan of the lode, 
which is a powdery, blaekish-brown ochre containing pyrolusite. 
The lode as seen in these pits runs E. and W., and is 16 feet 
wide, witha southerly dip of 90°; the best gossan is found on the 
foot-wall, and is about 6 feet wide, resting on which is 2 feet 
of a hard grit rib, south of which there is 8 feet of gossan. The 
